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Speed dating on your smartphone?

6 replies · 2,653 views · Started 05 May 2006

Here's an interesting addition to the S60 freeware canon. MobiFlirt is a S60 client for the worldwide craze, in which your smartphone checks out the local 'talent' for you. Never mind being nervous, your smartphone now does the chatting up for you! The mind boggles...

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MobiFlirt is only one more program in a line of "mobile social software" that gets longer and longer. E.g. this page here lists a surprising number of such programs, for different devices and mobile OS:
http://www.elasticspace.com/2004/06/mobile-social-software

I think the problem here is that all these programs are currently incompatible with each other, so it with the number of such programs growing it gets actually harder to find people this way over time. And right now it does not look like one of these programs will achieve critical mass on its own and become dominant.

So the true challenge seems to me not to write just another such program, but to find a way to set standards for a common protocoll that actually gets accepted and implemented.

There is a common protocol already. It's called "Talking". Very battery friendly and requires no additional software.

Nokia's Sensor application was the first of these.

They are all flawed in that they require any potential "dates" to also be running the software on their phone.

One man's flaw is another man's challenge 😊

If I had too much time on my hand I would be tempted to systematically get acquainted with the authors of all these programs, hammer together a too-good-to-ignore mobile flirt protocol with them, and with concerted power we would finally convince Nokia to put an implementation of the protocol into any future smart phone for it to become the dominating flirt platform, and all get rich from licenses...